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Editor Michael Haupert No. 34 December 2011

Economic History Association, c/o Alex Field, Executive Director, Santa Clara University, Department of Economics, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053-0385

The 2012 EHA Meetings

The Economic History Association will hold its annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia from September 21-23, 2012. EHA President Jeremy Atack has selected ―Revisiting the Transportation Revolution‖ as the theme for the conference. The conference headquarters in Vancouver will be the Sheraton Wall Centre.

Generations of economic historians have written extensively about the economic impact of the transportation improvements. Nevertheless, new tools, new data, and new techniques derived from geographic information systems, economic geography, and the like continue to offer better measures of the impact of the improvements in roads, ships, railroads, and planes (and the infrastructure which support them). They also provide new insights into the short and long term effects of these changes and how they have shaped our world by diminishing the importance of space and place. Once upon a time, distance in the form of time and money protected producers and isolated communities and cultures. Improved communications and transportation have eroded these—a process which continues to this day as these technologies evolve.

The Program Committee is chaired by Robert Margo (Boston University), and includes Ran Abramitzky (Stanford), Leah Boustan (UCLA), and Eugene White (Rutgers). The committee welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that specifically fit the above theme. All papers should be submitted individually. Authors may suggest that three particular papers would fit well together in a session but such suggestions are in no way binding upon the committee.

Papers should be works in progress, not accepted or published papers. Authors should let the program committee know, at the time of application, if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or co-authored a paper at the 2011 meeting are generally not eligible for inclusion in the 2012 program.

Papers and session proposals should be submitted online: www.eh.net/eha/meetings/submissions. The submission system is open from October 24 onwards. Paper proposals should include a 3-5 page précis and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. Papers should be submitted by Friday, 27 January, 2012 to ensure consideration.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. Applications for the poster session should be submitted online and are due no later than May 18, 2012. Information on how to submit will be posted at http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2012-meeting. The dissertation session, convened by Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale) and Joachim Voth (Pompeu Fabra), will honor six dissertations completed during the 2011-2012 academic year. The submission deadline is May 15, 2012. The Allan Nevins and Alexander Gerschenkron prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on North American and non-North American topics respectively.

For further information, check http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2012-meeting, which also includes information on travel options to Vancouver, Canada; or contact Meetings Coordinator Jari Eloranta at [email protected].

EHA Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes also use Google Checkout to pay for your membership over the web. The EHA supports research in economic history through various grant programs Application forms for all grants and administered by the Committee on fellowships are available on the EHA Research in Economic History (CREH) website at https://www.eh.net/eha/ and the Annual Meetings Program grants-and-fellowships. Please direct Committee. All applicants for or any questions to the chair of the CREH, recipients of an EHA grant or prize must Professor Aldo Musacchio, at be members of the Association, and all [email protected]. application materials must be submitted electronically (see instructions below). A Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid: The downloadable membership form is Committee on Research in Economic available online at: History awards Arthur H. Cole grants-in- http://eh.net/eha/membership. You can aid to support research in economic history, regardless of time period or

2 geographic area. Awards typically are in specific research purposes (for example, amounts up to $5000, although higher visiting archives or purchase of amounts may be awarded in exceptional microfilm or CD-ROMs) and in most cases. Applicants must be members of instances will not exceed $2,500. They the Association and must hold the Ph.D. are nonrenewable, but recipients are degree. Preference is given to recent eligible to apply in a subsequent year for Ph.D. recipients. a Graduate dissertation fellowship (see above). DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 1, 2012. Awards announced by DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 31, 2012. January 13, 2012. Awards announced by February 24, 2012. The following three programs are for those who have not yet received the Annual Meetings Travel and Hotel Ph.D. degree: Subsidies: Graduate Students interested in disseminating preliminary results Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowships: from their thesis work may apply to Dissertation Fellowships are intended for participate in the poster session at the students whose thesis topic has been Annual Meetings. Those accepted approved and who have made some receive the following support: progress towards completion of the dissertation. Applicants must be  Travel subsidies up to $500 for members of the Association, and domestic flights or train fare, up dissertation fellowships are not to $800 for international flights. renewable. Funds awarded during this  Complimentary hotel rooms application cycle are intended to provide (double occupancy, shared with support during the 2012-13 academic another graduate student) for up year. Sokoloff Fellowship Awards are to 3 nights. for $15,000. Thanks to a generous gift  60 percent discount on the from the estate of Kenneth Sokoloff and registration fee subsequent individual contributions, this  80 percent discount on the fellowship honors the major Saturday Presidential Banquet contributions of Kenneth Sokolff to  Free dinner with other graduate economic history, and in particular his students Friday night. care and concern for the many students he introduced to economic history. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: May 18, 2012. Awards announced by DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: June 15, 2012. January 13, 2012. Awards announced by February 24, 2012. Those interested in presenting a poster should apply on the EHA website. An Exploratory Travel and Data Grants: online system for submitting an Exploratory Travel and Data Grants are application to present a poster will open early stage grants for doctoral students by March 5, 2012. Questions about the writing a dissertation in economic poster session should be directed to history. They provide funding for Professor Robert Margo, chair of the

3 program committee at [email protected]. annually for the best dissertations on Graduate students who have presented a North-American and non-North poster are eligible for the dissertation American topics completed during the session in a subsequent year, but may previous year. Six finalists, three for not participate in the poster session two each award, will be chosen to present years in a row. dissertation summaries at the annual meeting of the Economic History Graduate students interested in attending Association in Vancouver in September the annual meeting but not participating 2012. Finalists will receive $250 to in the poster session are eligible, defray travel expenses. Award recipients depending on funding availability, for up receive a cash prize of $1,200. to three nights' complimentary hotel room (double occupancy, shared with Eligibility: Those who received another graduate student). Applicants their Ph.D. between June 1, 2011 and must be members of the Association. May 15, 2012 are eligible and invited to DEADLINE: July 6, 2012. Awards submit their dissertation. You must be a announced by July 27, 2012. member of the Economic History Association to submit and the Conditions of Support: All recipients dissertation must be in English. Planned of EHA fellowship and grant support attendance at the meeting is required for must file a short (one or two page) report submitting an application, and presentation of a summary is required on how they spent their money and how for a prize. To be considered for either it facilitated their research. This report of these prizes, completed dissertations should be filed by August 31 of the year must be submitted in hard copy on or subsequent to receipt of the funds and before May 15, 2012. Decisions will be can be sent as an email attachment to announced by July 23, 2012. Professor Aldo Musacchio, chair of the Dissertations will not be returned unless Committee on Research in Economic return postage is prepaid.

History, at [email protected]. Scholars submitting a dissertation may not in the same year submit a proposal to Prizes the general program that is part of or The EHA recognizes excellence in derived from the dissertation. On an research, publication, and teaching of exception basis the Association economic history by awarding several will allow a two year window following annual and biennial prizes at the thesis completion for submission. President's Awards Banquet during the annual meetings. Each fall the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Announcements page on the EHA web Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian site (http://eh.net/eha/prizes) and the Economic History completed during the EHA newsletter include Calls for previous year is awarded annually by the Nominations and submission Economic History Association. The information. award is made on behalf of Columbia University Press. Dissertation Awards: The Nevins and Gerschenkron prize are awarded

4 Please send submitted dissertations to: basis for selecting the pool of finalists for the prize. After arriving at a short list Professor Naomi Lamoreaux of finalists, the committee will gather Department of Economics further supporting information. Anyone Box 208269 is eligible to write a letter of nomination. Yale University DEADLINE: April 1, 2012. New Haven, CT 06520-8269 email: [email protected] Letters of nomination should be sent to: Professor Leah Platt Boustan Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Department of Economics Best Dissertation in the economic UCLA history of an area outside of the United 8283 Bunche Hall States or Canada published during the , CA 90095-1477 preceding year. The Alexander email: [email protected] Gerschenkron Prize in Economic History Other members of the committee are: is awarded annually by the EHA. Professor Melissa Thomasson Department of Economics Please send submitted dissertations to: Miami University Professor Joachim Voth Oxford, OH 45056 Economics Department Email: [email protected] UOF & CREI Ramon Tria Fargas 25-27 Professor Chris Hanes E-08005 Barcelona, Spain Department of Economics email: [email protected] Binghamton University Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence Email: [email protected] in Teaching Economic History: The annual Jonathan Hughes Prize is Publication Awards awarded to recognize excellence in teaching economic history. Jonathan Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize is Hughes was an outstanding scholar and a awarded every other year for an committed and influential teacher of Outstanding Book on North American economic history. The prize includes a (including Caribbean) Economic $1,200 cash award. The winner is History. The Alice Hanson Jones Prize selected by the EHA Committee on will be presented in September of 2012. Education and Teaching. This $1,200 prize is awarded biennially and alternates with the Gyorgi Ranki The Committee on Education of the Prize for a book on European economic Economic History Association invites history. nominations for the annual Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Eligibility and Nominations: Only books Economic History. Letters of nomination published in English during 2010 or should state what qualities of excellence 2011 are eligible for the 2012 prize. The the candidate's teaching of economic author need not be a member of the history has embodied. The strength of Association. Authors, publishers, or the nominating letter will be the primary

5 anyone else may nominate books. The Ranki Prize was established by the Authors or publishers should send a Economic History Association in 1989 copy of the book, plus curriculum vitae to honor the late Gyorgi Ranki, a of the author(s), with current information distinguished Hungarian economic on addresses and telephone numbers, to historian who taught in both Hungary each member of the committee. and the . The Ranki Prize is DEADLINE: March 1, 2012. awarded biennially for an outstanding book in European economic history and Selection Committee: is in the amount of $1,200. It alternates Professor Gavin Wright with the Alice Hanson Jones Prize for a Department of Economics book in North American (including Stanford University Caribbean) economic history. The Stanford, CA 94305 Ranki Prize will be awarded in email: [email protected] September 2013 for a book published in 2011 or 2012. Professor Maggie Levenstein Institute of Social Research To be eligible, a book must be published 3260 Institute for Social Research in English and must, in whole or in 426 Thompson Street substantial part, treat aspects of Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248 European economic history in any Email: [email protected] period from classical antiquity to the present. For purposes of this prize, Professor Peter Coclanis Europe is understood to include Department of History European Russia as well as the British 405 Hilgard Ave. Isles. Books that compare European University of North Carolina experience to that of other parts of the Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 world, or that use historical information Email: [email protected] to examine present or anticipate future issues and trends, are also eligible as Professor Price Fishback long as they pay significant attention to Department of Economics European economic history. University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0108 Nominations for the prize may be made Email: [email protected] by authors, publishers, or anyone else. Authors of nominated books need not be Professor Werner Troesken members of the Economic History Department of Economics Association. Date of publication rather University of Pittsburgh than date of copyright determines Pittsburgh, PA 15260 eligibility. Translations of books Email: [email protected] published previously in a language other than English are eligible in the year of Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize is publication in English. awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on the Economic Whoever nominates a book should send History of Europe. a copy of the book and the curriculum

6 vitae of the author(s) to each of the five Department of Sociology members of the Ranki Prize committee. Northwestern University DEADLINE: March 1, 2013. Evanston, IL 60208-1330 Email: [email protected] Selection committee: Professor George Grantham Professor Petra Moser Department of Economics Department of Economics McGill University Stanford University Room 443, Leacock Building Stanford, CA 94305 855 Sherbrooke Street West Email: [email protected] Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 [email protected] Professor Joyce Burnette Department of Economics Other members of the committee: Wabash College Professor Joerg Baten Crawfordsville, IN 47933 Department of Economics Email: [email protected] University of Tuebingen Mohlstrasse 36 Arthur H. Cole Prize is awarded Tuebingen D-72074 Germany annually by the Editorial Board of the Email: [email protected] JEH for the best article in the previous year's volume of the Journal. Professor Bruce Carruthers

The EHA in Boston Harvard Business School, Harvard’s Baker Library, Cambridge University The Economic History Association Press, and the MIT School of headed east to Boston for their annual Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. meeting for the third time, but since it had been 20 years since the last visit, The Program Committee consisted of there was no sense of déjà vu. The Richard Grossman (Wesleyan), meetings were first held in Boston in Maristella Botticini (Bocconi), Alan 1980, then again in 1992. Last fall 254 Taylor (Virginia), and Michael Bernstein economic historians congregated for the (Tulane). Local arrangements were 71st annual meeting from September 9th coordinated by Anne McCants (MIT), – 11th. The meetings were held at the Aldo Musacchio (Harvard), Jonahtan Seaport Boston Hotel, located on the Liebowitz (UMass – Lowell), Eric Hilt Boston waterfront in the bustling (Wellesley), and Carola Frydman (MIT). Seaport District. The theme for the The arrangements committee arranged meeting, chosen by President Barry for a walking tour of historic Boston and Eichengreen, was “Crises and Turning a tour of Boot Mill in Lowell, as well as Points.” the now traditional workshop on job search tips for graduate students and the Financial support for the meetings was Friday evening graduate student dinner, provided by Harvard University, the

7 hosted this year by Aldo Musacchio, Joachim Voth. Finally, Peter Zeitz Eric Hilt, and Carola Frydman. (UCLA), working under the tutelage of Naomi Lamoreaux, presented his The meetings consisted of fifteen dissertation, “Essays on Industrial sessions featuring 45 papers, as well as Productivity in Twentieth Century the usual array of business meetings, China.” topical breakfasts and lunches, and the presidential address and awards banquet. Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara) chaired the An additional 18 graduate students Nevins Prize session, which honors the prepared posters for presentations. The outstanding dissertations written on a presidential address was delivered on Canadian or American topic. The first Saturday afternoon by Barry dissertation was presented by Juan Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley). He spoke Manual Puerta (Pompeu Fabra), who on the topic of ―Economic History and wrote “Essays on the Economic History Economic Policy.‖ of the Family” under the direction of Hans-Joachim Voth. Katherine Shester The plenary session on Friday afternoon, (Vanderbilt) presented “American Public featured Albert Fishlow (Columbia) who Housing’s Origins and Effects.” Her presented ―Lessons for the Future: advisor was William Collins. The third International Capital Markets in finalist was Trevor Kollman (Arizona) Historical Perspective.‖ The session was who wrote “Housing Markets, chaired by Alex Field (Santa Clara). Government Programs, and Race during Comments were provided by Jeffry the Great Depression.” His advisor was Frieden (Harvard). Price Fishback.

Saturday afternoon was given over to As usual, the conference featured a mix business meetings and the dissertation of business and pleasure. Besides the session, featuring the outstanding aforementioned tour opportunities, the dissertations written during the previous Harvard Business School hosted a year. Friday evening reception at the Baker Library, and President Eichengreen Brian A’Hearn (Oxford) convened the hosted the annual President’s Party on Gerschenkron Prize competition for the Saturday night. best dissertation on a non-Canadian or American topic. The first presenter was The EHA will next convene in Olivier Accominotti (Institut d’Etudes Vancouver, BC, September 21-23, 2012. Politiques de Paris) who presented “Foreign Exchange Reserves, Financial Instability and Contagion: Three Essays on the Great Depression.” He wrote the dissertation under the guidance of Marc Flandreau. The second finalist was Peter Koudjis (Pompeu Fabra), who wrote “Trading and Financial Market Efficiency in Eighteenth-Century Holland” under the direction of Hans- Turn of the century logging near Vancouver

8 Awards Presented at the 2011 EHA second recipient is Johan Fourie Meetings (Utrecht), who is writing “An Inquiry into the Nature, Causes and Distribution The Economic History Association of the Wealth of the Cape Colony, 1652- recognizes outstanding achievements 1795,” under Jan Luiten van Zanden. among its membership each year. The following awards were presented at the The Arthur H. Cole Prize is awarded 2011 conference in Boston. each year to the author(s) of the outstanding article published in the The Allan Nevins Prize for best Journal of Economic History from dissertation in US or Canadian economic September of the previous year through history was awarded to Katherine June of the award year. The 2011 award Shester (Washington and Lee) for went to Michael Huberman (Montreal) ―American Public Housing’s Origins and and Christopher Meissner (UC-Davis) Effects.‖ for ―Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize of Globalization,‖ which appeared in the for the outstanding dissertation in non- September 2010 issue. U.S. or Canadian history was presented to Olivier Accominotti (Institut d’Etudes There were co-recipients of the prize for Politiques de Paris) for ―The Limits of the best article published in Explorations Equality: An Economic Analysis of the in Economic History during the previous Israeli Kibbutz.” year. The winning articles were Steven Nafziger’s ―Peasant communes and The Gyorgi Ranki Prize for the factor markets in late nineteenth-century outstanding Book on the Economic Russia,‖ and ―Serial defaults, serial History of Europe (including Caribbean) profits: Returns to sovereign lending in published during 2009-10 went to Jane Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600,‖ by Humphries (Oxford), for Childhood and Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Child Labour in the British Industrial Voth. Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Cole Research Grants were awarded to Hania Abou al-Shamat (Florida), The J.R.T. Hughes Teaching Prize is Moramay Lopez-Alonoso (Rice), and awarded to recognize excellence in Melinda C. Miller (Naval Academy). teaching economic history. The winner is selected by the EHA Committee on Dissertation Fellowships Three Education and Teaching based on dissertation fellowships were awarded in nominations from students. The 2011 2011. The recipients were William winner was Ann Carlos (Colorado). Walker Hanlon (Columbia), John Carnwath, (Northwestern), and Helen The Kenneth Sokoloff Dissertation Yang (George Mason). Award was presented this year to two individuals. One award went to Nicolas Exploratory Travel and Data Ziebarth (Northwestern)), who is writing Acquisition Grants Exploratory grants under the direction of Joel Mokyr. The for preliminary work on dissertations

9 were awarded to Jared Benton Jaworski (Arizona), Daniel Marcin (Virginia), Nicolas Duquette (Michigan), (Michigan), Anna Missiaia (LSE), and Hannah Farber (UC-Berkeley), Taylor Chris Vickers (Northwestern).

Bicyclers in Stanley Park

Notes from the 2011 EHA Teaching proceeded to discussion of some of the Breakfast By David Mitch (UMBC) issues raised by her presentation.

She began by asking how many of the attendees got to teach economic history with some regularity. The response was mixed, with a few indicating that they taught economic history regularly, while others indicated they taught it only infrequently.

Carlos indicated that she was lucky enough to be able to teach economic history every semester either in the undergraduate or graduate program. She noted that both American Economic History and European Economic History Ann Carlos meet a core requirement for the After collecting and starting to consume undergraduate economics major at the their breakfasts, some 18 attendees were University of Colorado. She has taught present when official proceedings of the five different economic history courses: teaching breakfast commenced at 7:15 Canadian economic history, European a.m. The session began with Ann Carlos economic history, American economic (Colorado) reflecting on her experiences history, international economic history, in teaching economic history and then and the history of economic development.

10 She noted that intermediate the volume edited by Linda Barrington, microeconomic theory is a prerequisite The Other Side of the Frontier, and Jared for her American economic history Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. course. Colorado has a phased progression of prerequisites for the In her American course she takes up the undergraduate major, including statistics economic causes and consequences of and econometrics or applied the U.S. Constitution. She has the econometrics. She often finds it students sit in a circle and read the necessary to review intermediate micro, constitution. It only takes about 40 describing the students’ knowledge as minutes to have the students read the ―rusty and locked away in boxes.‖ She constitution and the titles of the Bill of really likes having the intermediate Rights. Most have never read the whole micro prerequisite for her American document. The Cato Institute, among course since it allows her to pitch the other organizations, will provide free course at a higher level in terms of the copies of the U.S. Constitution for analytical tools employed. classroom use.

Discussion centered on splitting Carlos mentioned that her economic American economic history into a two history courses are often set up as course sequence breaking at about the writing intensive courses that meet Civil War. Carlos splits her American writing intensive curricular course into the periods before and after requirements. She has take-home the Civil War. midterm and final exams. She mentioned a useful textbook on writing titled She uses a combination of a textbook Analytical Writing by David and journal articles for her American Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen, published economic history course. For this course by Wadsworth. Mention was also made she normally schedules a class meeting of a related volume by the same authors at the library, which is run by someone titled Analytical Writing with Readings. with the library instructional staff. A These volumes, and the approaches to very helpful library staff member made writing they highlight, entail both up a website of library and other deductive and inductive methods. information resources for her course, which is also available as a pdf file with Political cartoons are also used in her a range of references in history and classes as a basis for term projects to economics. engage students and to bring out perspectives on economic policy issues At the start of her career, Carlos taught in various time periods. She also uses Canadian economic history, where them to illustrate how societal values issues of ―fish, fur and timber‖ were and standards change over time. discussed She continues to have one major unit dealing with the economic She then turned to teaching the European history of native peoples in her economic history course, which she American course. She mentioned books finds harder to teach since the topics are that have been useful since then that less clear cut. She does not use a facilitate teaching this topic including textbook for this course, but instead

11 focuses on articles. However, she did Then discussion turned to how to get mention Joel Mokyr’s Lever of Riches students to read articles. Mention was and Robert Allen’s British Industrial made of assigning articles to groups and Revolution as resources. She divides requiring each group to report on an students into 12 groups and has each article. The group concluded that there group present one article to the class and were no model answers for this. then do a write-up of another article. For students who do poorly on exam The session then turned from the essay questions, the possibility of presentation to group comments on rewriting the exam question was calling on students in class and how to discussed. Some suggested that it does engage them in discussion. Carlos cold not take much time to regrade these calls on students in class, asking for a rewritten answers. Another possibility is question or a response from a particular to let students rewrite exam answers, but row rather than a particular student. instead of regrading the answer, Mention was made of asking students to increasing the weight of the final exam if draw diagrams in class. One possibility the student gets above a certain grade on is to require the class to tell the student it. what to draw. Then discussion turned to how to make This prompted a general discussion of group work proceed effectively. Mention gender differences both among students was made of emailing group members and instructors in the classroom. One and keeping copies of emails as a record participant noted that as a young female of group member involvement. It was instructor she felt that students were suggested that members of a group could more likely to challenge her authority each be asked to provide an evaluation than they would a more mature male of their own contribution and that these instructor. She also felt that she could self-evaluations tended to be consistent not make jokes or else students would with the evaluations that other group not take her seriously. There was members provided for each other. discussion of whether to call students by their first names and whether one should Carlos summarized that her bottom line ask students about their preferred was that she loves to teach economic method of salutation. history and that she found it fantastic to have the opportunity to do so. Someone mentioned the practice of putting student names on index cards At the very end of the session, Marty and then picking cards out of the stack to Olney (UC-Berkeley) mentioned that determine who would be called on for there would be an American Economics discussion. This was referred to as Association sponsored conference on classroom roulette. There was also teaching economics from May 31 to mention of trying to make students feel June 2, 2012, and that she was hoping to that the audience was friendly. The issue organize a session on teaching economic of racial differences as well as gender history for that conference. Anyone differences in the classroom atmosphere interested should contact her. was also mentioned.

12 The breakfast adjourned at 8 a.m. in time of his death, he was Emeritus Professor for participants to get to the first round of History at Johns Hopkins University. of conference sessions for the day. Lane earned his A.B. from Cornell Postscript: Later that evening Ann University in 1921. The following year Carlos was named the recipient of the he earned his M.A. in History from Tufts Jonathan Hughes Prize for excellence in and then began working on his Ph.D. teaching economic history for 2011. Before finishing he held positions as an instructor in the History Department at the University of Minnesota in 1926 and Johns Hopkins (1928-31). He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1930 and was Past Presidents of the EHA: promoted to Associate Professor at Frederic C. Lane Johns Hopkins the following year. He was promoted to Professor in 1946, and would remain at Johns Hopkins for the remainder of his career, though he did hold visiting positions at Brandeis, Harvard, and Michigan State at various times.

In 1946-47 he was the Historian for the U.S. Maritime Commission, and was the Associate Director in Europe for the Social Science Division of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1951-54. Both of these positions were held concurrently with his faculty position.

Lane was a renowned expert on the economic history of Venice and other Italian city-states of the Renaissance, publishing more than a dozen books and articles on the topic. He also authored a high school history book and a book on the history of the US Maritime Frederic Chapin Frederic served as the Commission during WWII. He traveled ninth president of the Economic History frequently to Italy, and was a regular Association, holding the position from visitor at the Frari, a Franciscan September of 1956 until September of monastery that served as a repository for 1958. the papers of many ducal families and mercantile houses of Renaissance He was born in Lansing, MI on Venice. November 23, 1900, and died October 14, 1984 in Worcester, MA. At the time In addition to the presidency of the EHA, Lane also served as the president

13 of the International Economic History driving force behind term limits for Association from 1965-68, the American editorial board members and editors, Historical Association in 1965, and the though the latter would not be instituted Society of Italian Historical Studies. He before his death in 1984. was also an active member of the American Philosophical Society and the Lane was a Guggenheim Fellow in American Academy of Arts and 1958-59, and received honorary degrees Sciences. from Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins. In 1974 he won the He served on the inaugural editorial Ralph Waldo Emerson prize from Phi board of the Journal of Economic Beta Kappa for Venice: A Maritime History, and took over editorial duties in Republic, and in 1980 he was awarded 1944 after spending a year as co-editor the Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei with E.A.J. Johnson. Lane would for contributions to Italian economic remain as editor through 1951. He also history. served the EHA as a member of the Nominating Committee, the Honorary Selected Writings of Frederic C. Lane: Membership Committee for the entirety of its 16 year existence, and chaired the “Venetian Shipping During the Program Committee in 1942 and again Commercial Revolution,” The American in 1968. Historical Review 38, no. 2 (Jan 1933), pp 219-39 Lane was active in the formative days of the EHA, helping guide it through its “Venetian Bankers, 1496-1533: A Study sometimes turbulent early years. This in the Early Stages of Deposit Banking,” turbulence led to frustration among the Journal of Political Economy 45, no. 2 EHA officers, several of whom (Apr 1937), pp 187-206 threatened to resign. Lane himself tried to resign as editor of the Journal after “The Mediterranean Spice Trade Further one year, but was persuaded to stay, and Evidence of its Revival in the Sixteenth ultimately became its longest serving Century,” The American Historical editor. Review 45, no. 3 (Apr 1940), pp 581-90

At the end of his nine year stint as editor, “Family Partnerships and Joint Ventures Lane urged the EHA to allocate funds to in the Venetian Republic,” The Journal hire an assistant editor, a position that of Economic History 4, no. 2 (Nov had been unpaid since the existence of 1944), pp 178-96 the journal. He argued that the job was time consuming, and it was unlikely “Venture Accounting in Medieval another volunteer could be found. He Business Management,” Bulletin of the urged the EHA to raise dues to cover the Business Historical Society 19, no. 5 expense if necessary, because the (Nov 1945), pp 164-73 position was critical to the smooth functioning of the journal. As editor, he “Oceanic Expansion: Force and instituted the change from three to four Enterprise in the Creation of Oceanic issues a year in 1951. He was also the Commerce,” The Journal of Economic

14 History 10, Supplement: The Tasks of Archives of the Economic History Economic History (1950), pp 19-31 Association, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE “Economic Consequences of Organized Violence,” The Journal of Economic Contemporary Authors (Biography), History 18, no. 4 (Dec 1958), pp 401-17 Farmington Hills, MI: Thomas Gale Publishing, 2004 “Recent Studies on the Economic History of Venice,” The Journal of Directory of American Scholars, vol I, Economic History 23, no. 3 (Sep 1963), (8th edition), New York: R.R. Bowker, pp 312-34 1982

“Tonnages, Medieval and Modern,” The F. C. Lane obituary, Baltimore Sun, Economic History Review, New Series, October 16, 1984 Vol. 17, no. 2 (1964), pp 213-33 Frederic C. Lane papers, Milton “At the Roots of Republicanism,” The Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins American Historical Review 71, no. 2 University (Jan 1966), pp 403-20 Who Was Who 1971-80, vol VII, “Pepper Prices Before Da Gama,” The London: Adam & Charles Black, 1981 Journal of Economic History 28, no. 4 (Dec 1968), pp 590-97

“Meanings of Capitalism,” The Journal of Economic History 29, no. 1 (Mar 1969), pp 5-12

“The Role of Governments in Economic Growth in Early Modern Times,” The Journal of Economic History 35, no. 1 (Mar 1975), pp 8-17

Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Asahi Athletic Club 1919 Renaissance, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1934 Minutes of the Business Meeting EHA annual conference Venice, a Maritime Republic, Baltimore: September 10, 2011 Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973 President Barry Eichengreen called the Money and Banking in Medieval and meeting to order. Renaissance Venice, with Reinhold C. Mueller, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Election results: University Press, 1985 President elect: Robert Allen Vice president: Kevin O’Rourke Sources: Trustee: Joe Ferrie

15 Alex Field reported on the state of the host the 2015 IEHA meetings in La budget. Crosse, WI, and approving the recommendation of the committee on Reports were given by JEH editor Price administration that Price Fishback be Fishback and Meetings Coordinator Jari appointed as the next executive director, Eloranta, as well as representatives of effective September 2012, subject to the the AHA, Cliometric Society, NBER, approval of the membership. ACLS, BHC, SSHA, ISNIE, IEHA, and ASSA. The EHA thanked the local arrangements committee and the President Eichengreen reported that the program committee. 2013 meeting will be held in Arlington, VA. Other Board of Trustees action President Eichengreen invested Jeremy included increasing the reimbursement Atack as the new president. As his first for dissertation session participants to official duty, President Atack closed the $500, endorsing the U.S. proposal to 2011 meeting.

Economic History Association Financial Report 2010-11 Eh.Net Website 44,051 REVENUE/EXPENSES 2010-11 Management 49,152 REVENUE Meeting Expense 75,824 Individual Membership: 29,607 Membership+Goodwill 6,776 Meetings 50,092 Office & Miscellaneous 1,315 Cambridge U. Press 366,809 Printing and Distributing JEH Interest & Dividends 37,549 Depreciation Realized Gains (losses) Unrealized Gains (losses) 106,002 TOTAL ORDINARY Eh.Net support from other EXPENSES 257,806 organizations 3,420 BALANCE ON ORDINARY Contributions to prize funds 1,254 ITEMS 233,435 Other Revenue (submission EXTRAORINDARY fees, list rentals) 2,510 EXPENSES ORDINARY REVENUES 491,241 Graduate Education Initiative including realized gains Grants 67,500 including realized and Grad. Educ. Init.: Meetings unrealized gains 597,243 Expenses 20,083 TOTAL ORD + EXTRA. EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES 345,389 REVENUE BALANCE ON ORD. + Sokoloff estate 60,000 EXTRA. EXPENSES 145,852 TOTAL ORDINARY + EXTRAORIDNARY REV 657,243 ASSETS 7/31/11 Balance ORDINARY EXPENSES CASH BALANCES Awards and Grants-in-Aid 14,600 Checking Account (EHA Editorial Offices 66,088 Office) 261,199

16 Savings Account (EHA Alex Field (ex officio) Office) Checking Account (Meetings Office) 9,516 Investment Paypal Meeting Account 25,540 Chair: Charles Calomiris (2012) Morgan Stanley Liquid Asset Joseph Mason (2014) Account 71,976 Alex Field (ex officio)

Total in Bank and Cash Budget and Audit Accounts 368,231 INVESTMENTS Chair: Mark Geiger (2013) U.S. Treasury Bonds and Joe Ferrie (2015) Notes 290,755 Kevin O’Rourke (Vice President) (ex officio) Mutual Funds (Vanguard) 1,333,584 Bob Allen (President elect) (ex officio) Investment Total 1,624,339 Total Securities and Cash 1,992,570 Ranki Prize Chair: George Grantham (2012) Joerg Baten (2013) EHA Committees 2011-12 Bruce Carruthers (2014) Petra Moser (2015) Nominating Joyce Burnette (2016) Chair: Barry Eichengreen (Past President) (ex officio) Jones Prize Naomi Lamoreaux (Past Chair) (ex Chair: Gavin Wright (2012) officio) Maggie Levenstein (2013) Kevin O’Rourke (Vice President) (ex Peter Coclanis (2014) officio) Price Fishback (2015) Lee Craig (2012) Werner Troesken (2016) Tim Leunig (2012) John Wallis (2012) Education in Economic History Alex Field (non-voting) (ex officio) Chair: Leah Platt Boustan (2012) Melissa Thomasson (2013) Membership Chris Hanes (2014) Chair: Oscar Gelderblom (2012) Alex Field (ex officio) Marcia Frost (2013) Alan Dye (2014) Research Archives and Data Bases Alex Field (ex officio) Chair: John Wallis (2012) Robert Allen (President elect) (ex Trevon Logan (2013) officio) Marianne Wanamaker (2014) Alex Field (ex officio) Research in Economic History Chair: Aldo Musacchio (2012) The Journal of Economic History Carole Shammas (2012) Chair: Phil Hoffman (2012) John Brown (2013) Gavin Wright (2012) Kerry Odell (2013) Michael Haines (2013) William Collins (2014) Carolyn Moehling (2014) Mary Hansen (2014) Price Fishback (advisor)

17 Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (advisor) Executive Director: Alexander J. Field Alex Field (ex officio) (Santa Clara)

EHA Administration Immediate Past Presidents: Barry Chair: Carol Heim (2012) Eichengreen (UC Berkeley), Naomi Carolyn Moehling (2013) Lamoreaux (Yale), Richard Steckel Michael Bernstein (2014) (Ohio State)

EHA Program Committee Vice President: Kevin O’Rourke Chair: Robert Margo (2012) (Oxford) Eugene White (2012) Ran Abramitzky (2012) Trustees: Angela Redish (UBC), Paul Leah Boustan (2012) Rhode (Michigan), Carolyn Moehling Jari Eloranta (ex officio) (Rutgers), Joe Ferrie (Northwestern)

Dissertation: Editors: Price Fishback (Arizona), Jean- America: Naomi Lamoreaux (2011) Laurent Rosenthal (CalTech) Elsewhere: Joachim Voth (2011) Chair, Budget Committee: Mark Local Arrangements Geiger (Library of Congress) Chair: Angela Redish (2012) Mauricio Drelichman (2012) IEHA Representative: Lee Alston David Jacks (2012) (Colorado) Morten Jerven (2012) Jari Eloranta (ex officio) Meetings Coordinator: Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State) EH.NET Executive Mauricio Drelichman (2012) Representatives and Liaisons David Jacks (2013) International Economic History Susan Wolcott (2014) Association: Lee Alston (2013) Alex Field (ex officio) Jari Eloranta (ex officio) American Council of Learned Societies: Daniel Raff (2011) Call for Committee Members Committees play an important role in the NBER: Alan Olmstead (2015) workings of the EHA. If you are interested in being considered for Allied Social Science Association: Dan membership on a committee, please Bogart (2012), Martha Bailey (2012) contact Alex Field, Executive Director, at [email protected], or any other officer American Historical Association: Phil or member of the Board of Trustees. Hoffman (2012), Cathy Matson (2015)

Officers and Trustees Cliometrics Society: Ann Carlos (2012) President: Jeremy Atack (Vanderbilt) Business History Conference: Margaret President Elect: Robert Allen (Oxford) Levenstein (2011)

18 Social Science History Association: Another tool making its debut that year, Simone Wegge (2011) and one much more likely to be used by International Society for New the average economist was the IBM Institutional Economics: Lee Alston Selectric typewriter. It promised (2012) improved speed, but for those on a budget, the Royalite manual typewriter was widely available for only $49.95, carrying case included.

Also of concern to economists was the shrinking world of book publishers. Publishing giants Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson, and Company merged to form Harper & Row.

With gasoline soaring upwards of 30 Vancouver police 1949 cents a gallon, talk was all about the new Renault Dauphine. Renault advertised Fifty Years Ago in the JEH: 1961 the car as a fuel efficient alternative to bigger cars. In 1961 NYU began operating an IBM 7090, the most powerful computer in use The Department of Labor reported that at any Eastern university. The computer, the average office girl saw a salary which cost $3 million, was capable of increase of 4.3% over 1960 while the digesting 750,000 facts a second, about cost of living increased only 1.6%. This what the average smartphone can do resulted in the equivalent of an extra today. week’s pay, just enough to buy one good suit, reported John Dana of the It wasn’t just academics who recognized Department of Labor. the value of computers. Life Magazine reported that Braun Brothers Packing On the other end of the income scale, Co. of Troy, Ohio had converted their restaurateur Ray Kroc paid sausage making decisions to computer $2.7 million to buy out the McDonald after a five month experiment in which Brothers and take sole possession of the their master sausage makers pitted their California hamburger chain bearing the speed and ability against that of the brothers’ name. computer. They routinely lost, and now Troy uses the computer to analyze the The 21st volume of the Journal of list of meat cuts on hand and their Economic History, which was edited for current prices, and in less than 45 the first time by Douglass North and minutes it calculates the most profitable William Parker, featured 26 articles by bologna formula. Given the price of 28 authors. 18 of the authors published beef lips and tripe, the cost savings for the first time - 13 of them for the generated by the computer quickly only time, with five publishing for the recouped its operating costs. final time.

19 One of the highlights of the volume was A young graduate student by the name Mac Urquhart’s review of the second of Jeffrey Williamson was the third edition of the Historical Statistics of the future EHA president (1994) to publish United States, Colonial Times to 1957, that year. He made his first appearance weighing in at a hefty 789 pages, but as an author in the September issue, and priced very reasonably at $6.00. is the 1961 author with the most recent Urquhart found the volume to be an publication - in 2008, the 29th of his improvement over the initial one, which career, making him the most published was high praise, given that he thought author in the journal’s history. the first volume was indispensible to economic historians. Richard Eckaus made the only appearance of his career with ―The While recognizing the herculean task of North-South Differential in Italian compiling such a volume, which he Economic Development‖ in the guessed was likely the result of the September issue. It became the most- collaboration of the largest number of cited JEH article of the year, logging six professional social scientists on any citations to date, the most recent three single volume ever published, Urquhart years ago. Interestingly, it was not cited did have some quibbles. He for the first time until 1972. recommended that in future iterations of the volume the section editors provide a The volume also had 142 book reviews, more consistent requirement for citing one comment, two replies, and four sources of data. He noted that some review articles in its 662 pages. sections, specifically the chapters on prices and foreign trade, were thoroughly cited, while others left a lot to be desired. All in all though, he admitted that his criticisms were a bit like ―asking for all this and heaven too,‖ and that they were not meant to detract from the value of the volume, which he said represented a great and valuable achievement.

Lion’s Gate Bridge The author with the earliest appearance in the journal was David Landes, who Conference Announcements had first published in 1949. His article, ―Some Thoughts on the Nature of The XVIth World Economic History Economic Imperialism,‖ was his sixth of Congress what would be a career total of 10 JEH publications. Landes, who would be The Economic History Society of elected president of the EHA in 1976, Southern Africa and The Department of was one of three future presidents to Economics, Stellenbosch University publish that year. Lance Davis, who invite you to be part of the XVIth World became EHA president in 1978, was the Economic History Congress from 9-13 second. July 2012.

20 The congress format will follow a should include an abstract of no more traditional plan with five days of plenary than 500 words, a brief curriculum vita, and parallel sessions and a strong postal and email addresses, and emphasis on research and networking. telephone and fax numbers. Submissions Much of the debate will take place in are especially welcome from graduate parallel sessions hosted by specialist students and non-academic affiliates. session hosts and there will be ample Proposals for presentations on any opportunity for audience participation, aspect of economic or business history as well as time for networking – both are welcome. The deadline for vital to the success of the congress. submission of proposals is January 15, 2012. Social events include Opening and Closing Receptions and cultural Proposals may be submitted through the evenings for delegates and EBHS website at accompanying persons. Delegates will http://www.ebhsoc.org/, by e-mail to be encouraged to bring their families, [email protected], or by post to the and an accompanying persons program chair: programme will be offered. Dr. Frederick B. Gates Hosted by Stellenbosch University and Department of Social Sciences taking place on the campus in the heart Southwestern Oklahoma State of the world-renowned Cape Winelands University – just a short distance from the beautiful 100 Campus Drive city of Cape Town – the XVIth World Weatherford, OK 73096 Economic History Congress will offer participants a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of all that the Cape Winelands, Cape Town and South Africa have to offer.

The deadline for poster session proposals is March 1, 2012, and the Congress opens on July 9, 2012. For more information, visit the Congress website at http://www.wehc2012.org/.

37th Annual Economic and Business Historical Society Conference Las Vegas, Nevada, USA April 26-28, 2012

Proposals are now being accepted for the 37th annual conference of the Economic and Business Historical Society (EBHS), to be held at the Flamingo Hotel on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Proposals

21 EHA Newsletter Department of Economics University of Wisconsin – La Crosse 1725 State St. La Crosse, WI 54601

Economic History Sessions at the Western Economic Association International Meetings The Cliometric Society will sponsor sessions at the Western Economic Association International annual conference in San Francisco, CA, June 29 – July 3, 2012. The program committee is composed of Mike Haupert (UW-La Crosse), Andrew Jalil (Reed College), and Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine). Authors interested in presenting or discussing a paper, or chairing a session, should contact Mike Haupert at [email protected]. Please note on the subject line that you are sending a proposal for the WEAI meetings, and either include the proposal in your message or send the documents as attachments in a Word format.

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